I picked up my Multi last week and have been busy bolting on bits and pieces whenever I had chance, Today was the time to add a Sat Nav. I prefer TomTom and I already had a unit and all the cables that I took off my Rex. I had bought the bracketry to fit the Nav above the clocks and behind the screen on the Mutley...all pretty straight forward. I fitted a new screen at the same time. I was gonna wire to the battery, but it looks a royal PITA to lift the tank, plus I read on here there ought to be an inbuilt connector somewhere on the left hand side. I managed to get hold of the correct connector to plug in to the Ducati loom, wired it all up, fastened all the cabling in place and ....nothing. Bugger I traced the wiring back and no power to the inbuilt connector. Bugger again. As everything needs switching on by Ducati, or so it seems I did a humongous internet search to see if that applied to the Nav connector..nothing suggested it did, so checking the handbook, it said I should have one fusebox with all the main fuses under the seat...and another fusebox with ancillary fuses behind the left front side panel...except after lots of looking and prodding, there was no fusebox there A bit more searching and I discovered that what I originally thought were 3 rubber relay covers behind the battery, are actually a series of fuseboxes. None of the fuses said it was for the Nav system and I reasoned it would be a 7.5a fuse...checked those and all OK. The only likely option left was the 10a accessory fuse...and that was the one. It HAD blown, I replaced it , put all the wiring back on and the job is sweet On a "normal" bike the fuses would have been one of the first things I checked when confronted by a dead connection.. I made the mistake of assuming that cos the Multi has loads of electronics...it would need a complicated solution to fix the issue. Sometimes - its best to start with basics I guess...
Dunno dude. It has to have gone before the bike was mine Its not blown on me yet, so I guess the previous owner did something he shouldn't have
I guess, if it's the accessory fuse, that it's the same feed as the accessory socket on the right-hand side of the dash. Blew my 10A accessory fuse by plugging in the power feed to my tank-bag there with the ignition on. Either a spike, though nothing was plugged into the Givi power bar thing in my tank-bag at the time, or some sort of short. Replaced fuse and have since plugged it in before ignition is switched on without an issue. In fact have, occasionally, inadvertently plugged it in with ignition on and the pack of spare 10A fuses I bought as spares haven't been needed yet.
I always carry spare fuses. Luckily I had some spare mini-blades in my electrical toolbox, which kinda surprised myself really. I didn't know I had any I have loads of the "normal" blades and glass fuses. I doubt it'll blow again on my watch. Had I done something wrong on my wiring, it'd have gone again straight away and it didn't. I have done nothing electrical to the bike in my weeks tenure aside from the Nav connection yesterday, so logically it has to be the PO that did something amiss.
